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Originally Posted by RickOShay
This is partly the industry's fault too. By asking nothing more from people than a bachelors and native ability.. what do you expect..
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Oh, I know. Believe me I know.
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I agree the standards should be raised. I even think ALTs should be allowed to take the Japanese test and become real teachers.
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In Kyoto Prefecture, we have a program like this. I haven't applied yet, because I don't feel confident with my Japanese yet. But I will probably take one of the JLPTs this December, and then if my score is good enough, apply. Of course, I already
am a real teacher, but it'd be nice to have another group of documents saying so in Japanese.
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A quality ALT with certificates, language and cultural understanding is certainly worth more than 5 jokers hanging around Japan for a year or two of kicks. I am not quite sure why more BOEs have not caught on to this. Give people a career to pursue, and the real talent will start to show its face.
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I concur. I just think they worry we're going to be expensive. Which isn't true; I make more here than I would have made in rural Texas where I had been offered positions. It's sad I can make more as an ALT in Japan than an English teacher in America (which is what I went to school for). And we wonder why Japan kicks our ass year after in test scores.